Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 98 Part 3.djvu/67

 PUBLIC LAW 98-524—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2439

preceding the fiscal year for which the determinatioil is made and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States; "(B) an amount which bears the same ratio to 20 percent of the sums being allotted as the product of the population aged twenty to twenty-four, inclusive, in the State in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States; "(C) an amount which bears the same ratio to 15 percent of the sums being allotted as the product of the population aged twenty-five to sixty-five, inclusive, in the State in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States; and "(D) an amount which bears the same ratio to 15 percent of the sums being allotted as the amounts allotted to the State under clauses (A), (B), and (C) for such years bears to the sum of the amounts allotted to all the States under clauses (A), (B), and (C) for such year. "(3)(A) No State shall receive in any fiscal year less than the total amount of payments made to the State under allotments determined under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 for fiscal year 1984. Any amounts necessary for increasing the sum of the allotments of certain States to comply with the preceding sentence shall be obtained by ratably reducing the sums of the allotments of the other States, but no such sum shall be thereby reduced to an amount which is less than the total amount of payments made to the State under allotments determined under that Act for fiscal year 1984. "(B) In any fiscal year in which the amounts appropriated and available for allotments under this section exceeds the amounts so available for fiscal year 1984, and subject to the application of subparagraph (A), no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of the amount available under this subsection for each such fiscal year except that in the case of the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands the minimum allotment shall be $200,000. "(C) No State shall, by reason of the application of the provisions of subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, be allotted more than 150 percent of the allotment of that State in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the determination is made. "(D) For the purpose of this paragraph, the term 'State' does not include the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. "(b) If the Secretary determines that any amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year will not be required for such fiscal year for carrying out the program for which such amount has been allotted, the Secretary shall make such amount available for reallotment. Any such reallotment among other States shall occur on such dates during the same year as the Secretary shall fix, and shall be made on the basis of criteria established by regulation. No funds may be reallotted for any use other than the use for which they were appropriated. Any amount reallotted to a State under this subsection for any fiscal year shall remain available for obligation during the succeeding fiscal year

20 USC 2301 note.

Regulation Prohibition.

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